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Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development

ENEA activities on Environmental Technologies

Roberto MorabitoEnvironmental Technologies Technical Unit

UTTAMB

ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies,

Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

• It was established with the Law no. 99 of July 23rd 2009, art 37, and is based on the expertise, staff and facilities of the former ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment

• The present day ENEA’s expertise is the result of more than 50 years of research and innovation carried in the fields of energy, new technologies and the environment.

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• Its mission is to support Italy's competitiveness and sustainable development through research and innovation technology activities and agency services in support to public administrations, private enterprises, with particular regard to SMEs, and citizens.

• ENEA is organized into 23 Technical Units providing research, technology innovation and advanced services, with a permanent staff of 2.800 among researchers, technicians and administrative staff, operating in 13 Research Centres all over Italy

ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies,

Energy and Sustainable Economic Development ENEA IN FIGURES

Human Resources(total employed 2863 updated at 30.06.2010)

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R&D Main topics

ENERGY

Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Fission

Renewable Energy Sources

Energy Efficiency

Advanced Technologies for Energy and Industry

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Radiation Applications

Material Technologies

Energy and Environment Modeling

ICT

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Environment Characterization, Prevention and

Recovery

Environmental Technologies

Seismic Protection

Radiation Biology and Human Health

Sustainable Development and Innovation of

the Agro-Industrial System

ENEA at a glance

Annual volume of Projects: Euro 46.825.000 (2009)

More than 120 ongoing projects financed by EC, 80 of which financed by 7th FP till July, 2010 (main themes: EURATOM fission, Energy, Environment and Research Infrastructures)

1200 partners from 66 countries all over the world

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ENEA activities on

Environmental Technologies

ENEA’ activities The Frame

2000 Lisbon – ….Information Society……knowledge-based economy…….strategy

2001 Gotheborg – The sustainable development strategy –Needs for integrated policies allowing the achievements of economic, social and environmental goals (decoupling development and environmental degradation)

2003 Brussels – Environmental Technologies are acknowledged as one of the main pillars for achieving the Gotheborg strategy

January 2004 – The European parliament approves the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP)

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The Frame

Environmental Technologies are those cleaner and resource efficient technologies which can decrease material inputs, reduce energy consumption and emissions, recover valuable by-products, minimize waste disposal problems or some combination of these.

Environmental Technologies are not only single technologies but also total systems including know-how, procedures, methodologies, management plans, etc

Environmental Technologies Technical Unit

UTTAMB – Casaccia RC – 5 labs (and 1 administrative unit):

• Integrated Waste Cycle

• Ecoinnovation of productive systems

• Development of future scenarios and modelling for the evaluation of atmospheric pollution

• Environmental restoration

• Environmental management systems

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At national level:

Public Authorities (Ministries of the Economic development, the

Environment, the Research, Regions, Municipalities, etc.)

• Scientific and technical support, advisor and services

• Cooperation in joint projects of R&D

Industrial sector, particularly SMEs

• Cooperation in joint projects of R&D

• Technology transfer

• Demonstration

• Identification and replication of Best Practices

• Dissemination

At international level:

European Commission (DG Environment, DG Research, DG Energy,

DG Enterprise)

UNIDO

Public Authorities of Foreigner Countries

Our main “clients” The activities

All the activities carried out by ENEA-UTTAMB aim to sustainability of urban, touristic and industrial systems integrating:

“Traditional” R&D activities

“New” Agency functions

• Supporting the EC and Italian Government in policies and related legislation, regulation, etc

• Supporting national, regional and local Institutions in the implementations of EC Directives and regulations, of environmental management plans at local, regional and national levels

• Supporting industries, mainly SMEs, in the implementation of environmental technologies developed by ENEA or market available

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Main sectors

Waste cycle management

Casaccia and Trisaia Research Centres

Eco-innovation of productive processes and systems

Casaccia Research Centre

Water management

Bologna, Casaccia and Trisaia Research Centres

Environmental restoration

Casaccia Research Centre

Environmental certification and management tools and eco-design

Bologna and Casaccia Research Centres

Air quality

Bologna and Casaccia Research Centres

The sustainable management of waste

Prevention

Reuse

Recycling &Composting

EnergyRecovery

Disposal

Maximumsustainability

Minimum sustainability

Development of technical and scientific competencies on the waste management in the framework of the environmental sustainability.

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Monitoring and analytical characterizationof waste and emissions from treatment activities

The sustainable management of waste, together with the prevention actions, softens the environmental impacts related to the transformation and the depletion of raw materials, and reduces quantity and hazard of products that should be inevitably disposed as waste at the end of their life cycle.

Experimentation, demonstration, validation and monitoring of technologies and systems

Promotion e strengthening of innovative technologies for the recovery of waste as a tool to reduce the exploitation of natural resources and the impact of the management systems, by means of:

- promotion of industrial initiatives in local frameworks;- technical-economical validation of the synergies between

different waste streams treatments;- the growth of programmatic arrangements between local

institutions and entrepreneurs.

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Waste as a resource and not

as a problem

Rare Earths recovery from spent catalysts, super-alloy scrap, spent

batteries, sludge, dusts

PGMs (platinum, rodium, palladium) recovery from

automotive spent catalysts

Lead, plastic, micronized silica and energy recovery from spent lead-

acid batteries

Nickel, Cadmium, Zinc, Manganese recovery from spent batteries used in

the electronic devices

Metal recovery from waste electrical and electronic

equipment (WEEE)

Recovery of metals (e.g.Titanium, Vanadium, Cobalt and

Manganese) from fly ashes and industrial exhaust catalysts

Metal recovery from wastes Eco-innovation

Research & Development

Eco-innovation of single processes (BATs, BREF, etc..)

Eco-innovation of products (Ecodesign, LCA, etc..)

Eco-innovation of industrial/productive areas (integrated system management, industrial ecology, etc..)

Technical advise, training, dissemination

Supporting private and public stakeholders in eco-

innovation and related policy implementation (REACH, RAEE, WFD, ..)

Eco-innovation through

innovative technologies

and methodologies

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BATTLE Project - Best Available Technique for water reuse in TextiLE

• Development and prototypal application of a clean technology for the water reuse, at present not envisaged in the BREFs, to be proposed as reference BAT for SMEs as well for large enterprises.

INTEXUSA project - INTelligent innovation for sustainable TEXtile production: Optimisation of dyeing processes with UltraSonic technology and its integration with Automatic on-line control.

• Advantages of UltraSonic technology in dyeing processes:

Increased dyes diffusion towards fibers

Increased dyes dispersion (aggregates decomposition)

Air expulsion/degassing from fibers

Strong liquid agitation

Ecoinnovation in the textile industries The EU project BATTLE

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INTEXUSA Project

• Excellent qualitative results obtained with natural fibers (wool, cotton)

• Energy saving due to lower process time and temperature than in classical dyeing processes

• Time 50 minutes less

• Temperature: 60 C instead of 80 C

Ongoing studies

• Reduced emission of organic substances (dyes, dispersants, wetting agents) thus reducing wastewater treatment costs

• Reduced water consumption

Cotton cloth - Dye “blue Kemazol 2%”

Wool cloth -Dye “Red Nylosan E-BL, 1%”

Consultancy to UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)

• Promoting the implementation of BAT/BEP to reduce unintentional releases of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from industry sources

– mainly pertaining to the metallurgical sector (ferrous and non-ferrous) in developing countries and economies in transition.

• Provision of a range of services in different stages of investment projects

– dissemination of industry-related knowledge

– provision of technical assistance for the individuation of suitable industry strategies to accelerate sustainable industrial development.

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R&D projects at international (different EC funding programmes such as FP7, LIFE+, ENPI, PON, etc. - UNIDO) and national (Ministries, SMEs) level

Large integrated projects integrating two or more of the listed fields according to the principles of the Industrial Ecology approach

On-going R&D activities